The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the addition of key industry members to the newly constituted Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The official press release stated that the ...
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Stellar Blockchain Joins JPMorgan, BlackRock in CFTC’s Global Advisory Committee ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The cross-remittance blockchain is the only layer-1 protocol in the committee. Others joining the platform include Uniswap Labs and CoinFund. The de...
CFTC’s Johnson makes a call to action following FTX fallout
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Kristin Johnson is advocating for the agency to introduce new cryptocurrency rules while also calling on Congress to enhance the agency’s authority. ...
Stellar Joins CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee as a Prominent Crypto Organization
The new sponsor of the GMAC is CFTC commissioner Caroline Pham. The United States government’s independent Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) oversees the futures and options markets. The Glo...
Stellar Becomes Newest Member of CFTC’s Committee
The non-profit organization – Stellar Development Foundation – announced joining a new advisory committee of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the firm’s stat...
Ripple Rival Stellar Becomes CFTC’s Blockchain and Digital Assets Advisor
Gamza Khanzadaev Commodity Futures Trading Commission welcomes Stellar Development Foundation into its new advisory body The Stellar Development Foundation will reportedly become a member of a new adv...
Stellar joins CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee as one of four crypto orgs
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has become the newest member of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), the blockchain announce...
CFTC’s opinion on the regulation of the digital assets market
Following the relaunching of the Global market Advisory committee, it happens to be the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has decided to gather all of its attained knowledge and experience t...
CFTC’s former commissioner Brian Quintenz joins a16z as head of policy
California-based venture capital firm a16z has made Brian Quintenz its new Head of Policy to lead the Web3-focused company’s bi-partisan policy efforts. Per a statement released on December 6, a16z ha...
US CFTC’s Behnam Will Testify at FTX Hearing in Senate
The Agriculture Committee announced the hearing the same day it published a defense of the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, a bill supported by Bankman-Fried. Industry participants have ex...
CFTC Chairman: FTX US Derivatives is healthy because of CFTC’s oversight
While FTX filed for bankruptcy, its Derivatives trading arm is still standing. FTX US Derivatives is regulated by the US CFTC. Benham did not comment on any enforcement plans. CFTC regulatory oversigh...
DAOs Aren’t People, Crypto Lawyers Tell Court in CFTC’s Ooki Case
Still, it’s how the CFTC has brought these charges that has attorneys in the crypto industry sounding alarm bells. The agency sought court permission to serve the entire DAO at once by posting t...
The CFTC’s Ooki Dao action is a bad omen for American crypto developers
Considerable anxiety exists in the world of Web3 related to regulation and the legal status of cryptocurrency projects. It’s particularly apparent in the United States, where the Commodity Futures Tra...
Behnam’s Response on CFTC’s Expansion in The Crypto Cash Market
Rostin Behnam strongly supports the quality of CFTC regulation and back fire with his response. Behnam is working on a campaign as a part of CFTC expansion to the crypto cash market. On Oct. 14 2022, ...
CFTC’s Behnam Calls FTX Idea a Potential ‘Evolution’ in Market Structure
The application process seems to be “going well,” so far, said Zach Dexter, the CEO of FTX US Derivatives, at a separate event on Friday – the Security Traders Association market structure conference....
CFTC’s Control Over Stablecoins Should Be Strengthened, Says Gensler
31 mins ago | 2 mins read News As per Gensler, the control over stablecoins will reduce the risk to the financial system. Gensler says the CFTC lacks the direct authority to impose regulations over st...
CFTC’s Crypto Regulations Will Benefit The Bitcoin Price Massively: R. Benham
The crypto market has come a long way since its inception, and it has constantly been evolving. The need for regulation intensifies as the crypto market becomes vaster and gains tremendous traction. ...
Interpreting the CFTC’s Lawsuit Against Ooki DAO
“A key bZeroX objective in transferring control of the bZx Protocol (now the Ooki Protocol) to the bZx DAO (now the Ooki DAO) was to attempt to render the bZx DAO, by its decentralized nature, enforce...
What’s next for DAOs? Breaking down the CFTC’s latest enforcement action
On Sept. 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Ooki DAO in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleged that the DAO was...
Push to Enhance CFTC’s Crypto Watchdog Role Gets a Boost in US Congress
The Senate legislation – introduced in August by the leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and senior Republican, John Boozman (R-Ark.) – is a relatively na...
US Senators Want Crypto To Be Under the CFTC’s Control
The US Senate wants to take the crypto regulatory power of the SEC and put it in the hands of the CFTC, which the lawmaking body views as much better for the market. During the U.S. Congressmen on Aug...
Senators Stabenow, Boozman introduce crypto bill that extends CFTC’s regulatory powers
United States Senate Agriculture Committee chair Debbie Stabenow and ranking member John Boozman introduced the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act bill on Wednesday. The bill has been expecte...
CFTC’s G. Romero raises the alarm of similarities between crypto now and banks in 2008
Goldsmith Romero, a commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has raised the alarm over the crypto market’s correlation with the banking sector in years heading to the 2008 fi...
The CFTC’s action against Gemini is bad news for Bitcoin ETFs
On June 2, 2022, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) initiated an action against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by billionaire twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Among ...